Episode · No Stupid Questions · 2023-01-19
Books mentioned on Are Humans Smarter or Stupider Than We Used to Be? | No Stupid Questions | Episode 34
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Amusing Ourselves to Death
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman is a media ecology classic arguing that television and modern electronic amusements have trivialized public discourse, transforming serious political and social topics into mere entertainment.
Discussed“in the mid 1980s there was a book by Neil Postman called amusing ourselves to death and it basically was an extension of the orwellian fear”
